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Years of Utah v. Utah State on thanksgiving.

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When we lived in Oklahoma City we explained how to get to Stillwater from OKC: Drive North until you smell it and East until you step in it. This clown fits.

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10. It’s a big job. 

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A friend suggested that the conference should poach the Big 12. Several are research universities with medical schools and good athletic departments, so they’d be good fits and are regionally more appropriate.

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He was my first sports hero. My sister helped me make a scrapbook of the Utes at that time. When we moved back to Utah from Oklahoma in 1977 I got an appointment with him. We talked and I explained that the scrapbook was important to me, but I wanted him to have it. It was special to give it to him. He thanked me profusely and told me a fire had destroyed many of his keepsakes. Dang, it felt good. He was a good guy, a special Ute.

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I thought it was because he played most of three quarters on his back.

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My spelling stinks today, so there are errors here. I only go back to the time when Vadal Petersen was the coach and Arnie Feron, Vern Gardner, Wat Misaka, Fred Weidner, Leon Watson played. I was the same year at the U as Billy McGill and watched him in each of his home games. I even climbed onto the roof from the inside and watched a football game from the crest. Yup, I’ve seen a game or two.

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I attended the U before most of you were born- BS, Zoology in 1962, MS, Zoology in 1964. Stephen D. Durant was a marvelous professor and I took all of his courses, which were all evolution courses:  Mammalogy, Man, Vertebrate Phylogeny, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy. His course “Man” dealt with evolution of primates. Anthropology majors had to take it, so the class was big. At the end he was talking about breast shape in different groups of modern human women. When he was finished he leaned over the lectern and said “and some of you girls are trying to fool me”.

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The temperature in Houston may be tolerable, but the humidity is probably going to be over 90%. In our three years there the Texas never very close to 100 degrees, but the humidity was a killer, frequently above 95%. Teams from other areas, even in Texas, had a tough time.

Stillwater is bound to be tough. They’ll probably have SLC-type temperatures with humidity over 70%. Incidentally, to get to Stillwater from Oklahoma City, just go north until you smell it, then east until you step in it. That’s what we learned when we moved to Oklahoma City.

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I’ve loved the places in Mexico; St Thomas in the Virgin Islands; San German and San Juan, Puerto Rico. I loved the drive from Salt Lake to Anchorage 3300 wonderful, beautiful camping miles.

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